LAPACK lib problem, lme4, lastest R, Linux

I just dumped Vista off a laptop and installed Ubuntu 10.10 (latest
release) as the single operating system. I did all of the updates and
then installed emacs and ess. Next I installed R by following the the
usual instructions on the CRAN site. At this point all is working I am
now in the process of installing the packages that I normally have
installed. I am having a problem with the LAPACK libraries when
installing lme4, but the problem is not unique to lme4. It is either a
link to or missing LAPACK libs. I am at a loss as what I am doing wrong
since I have started with a completely clean machine and am not trying
to anything special.

-------HERE is the R startup:
<wow> (ron) R

R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)

-------HERE is the final output from trying to install lme4:
* installing *source* package lme4 ...
** libs
gcc -I/usr/share/R/include -I"/usr/lib/R/library/Matrix/include"
-I"/usr/lib/R/library/stats/include" -fpic -std=gnu99 -O3 -pipe -g -c
init.c -o init.o
gcc -I/usr/share/R/include -I"/usr/lib/R/library/Matrix/include"
-I"/usr/lib/R/library/stats/include" -fpic -std=gnu99 -O3 -pipe -g -c
lmer.c -o lmer.o
gcc -I/usr/share/R/include -I"/usr/lib/R/library/Matrix/include"
-I"/usr/lib/R/library/stats/include" -fpic -std=gnu99 -O3 -pipe -g -c
local_stubs.c -o local_stubs.o
gcc -shared -o lme4.so init.o lmer.o local_stubs.o -llapack -lf77blas
-latlas -lgfortran -lm -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lf77blas
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -latlas
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [lme4.so] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package lme4
* removing /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/lme4

---------BUT
[ 48 ] <wow> (ron) /usr/bin/R CMD config LAPACK_LIBS
-llapack

---------AND
<wow> (ron) dpkg -l | grep lapack
ii liblapack-dev 3.2.1-8 library of linear algebra routines 3 - static
version
ii liblapack3gf 3.2.1-8 library of linear algebra routines 3 - shared
version
[ 44 ] <wow> (ron)

--------I did see a message indicating "Also do 'ldd
/usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R' and make sure you do _not_ have a depends on
Rlapack.so. ....":

[ 47 ] <wow> (ron) ldd /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R
linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00533000)
libR.so => /usr/lib/libR.so (0x0073e000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00110000)
libf77blas.so.3gf => /usr/lib/libf77blas.so.3gf (0x00ed4000)
libatlas.so.3gf => /usr/lib/libatlas.so.3gf (0x0026e000)
libgfortran.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3 (0x00cca000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x0065f000)
libreadline.so.6 => /lib/libreadline.so.6 (0x00534000)
libpcre.so.3 => /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x00f5b000)
liblzma.so.2 => /usr/lib/liblzma.so.2 (0x00568000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x0058b000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x005a0000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00e67000)
libcblas.so.3gf => /usr/lib/libcblas.so.3gf (0x005a4000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x005c4000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x005e0000)
libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x005fa000)

[ 41 ] <wow> (ron) ls /usr/lib/libatlas*
/usr/lib/libatlas.so.3gf@
[ 42 ] <wow> (ron) ls /usr/lib/libf77blas*
/usr/lib/libf77blas.so.3gf@

-------- so these are there and linked OK and there is no Rlapack.so The
links look OK.

Should I be linking to static libs and if so they do not seem to on my
machine anywhere. ( a "find . -name "*f77blas*" (or on atlas) turned up
so's only)

I am at a loss as to where to go from here.

Thank you all for your consideration.
Ron Burns